Eaves-trough hanger.



PATENTED JUNE 5, 1906.

A. B. LEONARD.

EAVES TROUGH HANGER.

APPLIOATION FILED NOV. 1, 1905-- @MQL,

UNITED STATES PAIENT OFF ICE.

ALMANZO B. LEONARD, OF BOONE, IOWA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN L. STEVENS, OF BOONE, IOWA.

EAVES-TROUGH HANGER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 5, 1906.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALMANZO B. LEONARD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Boone, in the county of Boone and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Eaves- Trough Hanger, of which the following is a specification. I

My object is to provide an improved, simple, convenient, strong, neat, and durable eaves-trough hanger made complete from one piece of wire in such a manner that both ends of the wire will serve as spring-clasps to engage the inside of an eaves-trough for securely attaching it to an eaves-trough.

My invention consists in the device hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 shows the hanger complete and ready for use. Fig. 2 shows it applied to an eaves-trough and fixed on the projecting edge portion of the roof of a building as required for practical use.

The numeral 10 designates the central portion of a single piece of wire doubled to produce a straight length 12, adapted for over lying and nailing to a roof, as shown in Fig. 2, and also to produce a cross-head 13 integral therewith at its lower end, adapted to extend across in the top of a trough to brace it.

One end of the cross-head terminates at one end in an eye, and one of the wires at the other end of the cross-head is bent at right angles to provide a clamp 14, adapted to engage the inside of the top of a trough, and the other end portion of the other part of the cross-head is bent into a loop 15, adapted to engage the bead at the outer edge of the trough and then extended to produce a springclasp 16, adapted to encircle and engage the under side of the trough, and its end is coiled to produce a hook 17, that terminates in a right-angled extension a and is adapted to enter the eye at the end of the cross-head 13, as shown in Fig. 2 and as required to securely clasp the hanger to the eaves-trough that extends up between the clasp 16 and the extension a.

The manner of fixing the hanger to a trough and fixing the hanger to a roof is clearly shown and will be readily understood by tinners and roofers and others familiar with the art to which my invention pertains.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

An improved eaves-trough hanger consisting of a single piece of wire doubled and twisted at its central portion to produce a strai ht length and cross-head at one end of said ength, one end of the wire terminating in a clamp to engage the inside of an eavestrough and the other end portion bent into a loop projected upward and outward to form a loop and then extended to engage the under side of an cave-trough and provided with a hook turned inward and terminating in a right-angled extension to engage the inside top edge of an eave-trough, substantially as shown and described.

ALMANZO B. LEONARD.

Witnesses:

F. L. SMITH, S. W. HoLcoMB. 

